Great topics and R50 000 prizes for School Essays!

National School Science Essay Competition for 2019 offers R50 000 worth of prizes  sponsored by the Claude Leon Foundation.  To enter, write an essay of 1  000 – 2  000 words on one of the following topics

• Is Science humankind’s greatest achievement?
• How will the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” benefit South Africa?
• Should bottled water be banned in South Africa?

In each of the three topics, the prizes are:     1^st prize R5 000 ,   2^nd prize R4 000,   3^rd prize R3 000. Plus two Merit Prizes to the value of R1000 each.

Teachers can win  the “Royal Society of South Africa Avid Educators” prizes valued at R2 000.

Remember to include your references as well as in-text referencing!

The Royal Society is delighted to announce the following five Fellows:

Prof Montaz Ali, Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand
Prof Mathan Nieuwoudt Bester, Retired Emeritus Professor, University of Pretoria
Prof Jasper Knight, Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
Prof Peter Geoffrey Ryan, Director of FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town
Prof Armanda Duarte Slager- Bastos, Professor of Zoology, University of Pretoria